SOURCE: "Anti-Pugilism: Violence and Justice in Scott's The Two Drovers'," in Scottish Literary Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, May, 1995, pp. 46-60.
Below, Johnson detects a preoccupation with pugilism in "The Two Drovers, " showing the relevance of eighteenth-century pugilism to the narrative and suggesting that the story may in part satirize topical debates and controversies surrounding the acceptibility of pugilism.
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